The first table below looks at the demand for Dojo skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Dojo over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Belfast region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dojo Toolkit
Rank 20 27 11
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -16
Contract jobs citing Dojo 12 2 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 6.154% 1.220% 10.57%
As % of the Application Development category 12.63% 4.000% 32.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 3
Average daily rate £325 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £380
% change year-on-year
- -14.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 -
All Application Development
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
95 50 107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 48.72% 30.49% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 16 23
Average daily rate £350 £280 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -16.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Dojo
County Antrim

Dojo
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Dojo across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Belfast Dojo Jobs Demand Trend

Dojo
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Dojo across the Belfast region.

Belfast Dojo Daily Rate Trend

Dojo
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing Dojo also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Dojo.

1 15 (71.43%) CSS
1 15 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 13 (61.90%) BizTalk Server
3 12 (57.14%) E-Commerce
3 12 (57.14%) jQuery
3 12 (57.14%) HTML5
3 12 (57.14%) CSS3
4 10 (47.62%) Java
4 10 (47.62%) OO
5 7 (33.33%) Web Design
5 7 (33.33%) TDD
5 7 (33.33%) Web Development
5 7 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
5 7 (33.33%) HTML
5 7 (33.33%) C#
5 7 (33.33%) C++
6 6 (28.57%) WebSphere
7 5 (23.81%) Finance
8 3 (14.29%) J2EE
8 3 (14.29%) JMS
8 3 (14.29%) HTTP
8 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
8 3 (14.29%) DHTML
8 3 (14.29%) JDBC
8 3 (14.29%) JSP
8 3 (14.29%) Servlets
8 3 (14.29%) XML
8 3 (14.29%) OOA/OOD
8 3 (14.29%) Ajax
8 3 (14.29%) JSON

Dojo
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing Dojo also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Dojo. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (71.43%) CSS
2 12 (57.14%) jQuery
2 12 (57.14%) HTML5
2 12 (57.14%) CSS3
3 7 (33.33%) HTML
4 6 (28.57%) WebSphere
5 3 (14.29%) J2EE
5 3 (14.29%) JMS
5 3 (14.29%) DHTML
5 3 (14.29%) JDBC
5 3 (14.29%) JSP
5 3 (14.29%) Servlets
5 3 (14.29%) XML
5 3 (14.29%) Ajax
5 3 (14.29%) JSON
6 1 (4.762%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 13 (61.90%) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) HTTP
1 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 9 (42.86%) JavaScript Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) E-Commerce
2 10 (47.62%) OO
3 7 (33.33%) Web Design
3 7 (33.33%) TDD
3 7 (33.33%) Web Development
3 7 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
4 3 (14.29%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 10 (47.62%) Java
3 7 (33.33%) C#
3 7 (33.33%) C++